Biden Backs Democrats Advancing Immigration Changes Unilaterally

Politics|Biden signals enactment for Democrats’ program to beforehand migration changes unilaterally, via a fund bill.

• July 29, 2021, 9:43 p.m. ET

President Biden said connected Thursday nighttime that helium supported a program championed by legislature Democrats to usage a legislative process intended for budget-related measures to bypass Republican absorption and legalize millions of undocumented immigrants.

Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the bulk leader, has been softly exploring whether it would beryllium imaginable to connect a wide revision of migration laws to a $3.5 trillion fund program that Democrats mean to walk unilaterally done a fast-track process known arsenic fund reconciliation.

Mr. Biden said connected Thursday nighttime that White House unit were “putting retired a connection close now” that “we should see successful the reconciliation measure the migration proposal.”

That means throwing the White House’s value down utilizing the fund maneuver to supply a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants, should bipartisan talks connected providing a pathway to citizenship autumn apart.

Mr. Biden met connected Thursday with Democratic lawmakers to sermon a programme known arsenic Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, oregon DACA, that protects immoderate immigrants, known arsenic Dreamers, from deportation. Advocates person pushed for Democrats to supply expedited citizenship to Dreamers, amid ineligible challenges to DACA.

“It went precise well,” Mr. Biden said of the meeting, which included members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and enactment of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees.

The president spoke to reporters en way to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center with his wife, Jill Biden, who was to acquisition a aesculapian process connected her foot.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi past period endorsed the idea of utilizing reconciliation to propulsion done an migration measure, citing the “budget impacts of migration successful our country.”

Republicans, however, person already called it an maltreatment of the reconciliation process and raised questions astir whether the parliamentarian would adjacent let migration authorities to beforehand nether a process that is intended to woody exclusively with fund rules.